{"id":2573955,"date":"2026-02-26T12:58:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-cant-afford-to-keep-letting-leftists-learn-from-their-mistakes\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:02:06","slug":"americans-cant-afford-to-keep-letting-leftists-learn-from-their-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-cant-afford-to-keep-letting-leftists-learn-from-their-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans Can&#8217;t Afford To Let Leftists &#8216;Learn&#8217; From Their Mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famericans-cant-afford-to-keep-letting-leftists-learn-from-their-mistakes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2573955&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The piece discusses a New York Times op-ed that notes two major medical groups\u2014likely the American Medical Association and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons\u2014have backed away from their earlier stance that \u201cthe <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >science\u201d supported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-us-must-stop-funding-horrific-animal-experiments-in-russia\/\" title=\"Congress: US Must Stop Funding \u2018Horrific\u2019 Animal Experiments in Russia\">surgically removing<\/a> healthy breasts<\/a> from girls or giving estrogen to boys. This retreat followed a jury verdict awarding $2 million to a young woman who had an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-psychiatrist-dr-miriam-grossman-trans-teens-told-they-can-deny-biology-and-not-pay-a-big-price\/\" title=\"Exclusive-- Psychiatrist Dr. Miriam Grossman: Trans Teens Told They Can \u2018Deny Biology and Not Pay a Big Price\u2019\">elective double mastectomy<\/a> at 16 and sued the psychologist and surgeon involved. The author suggests the victory should be celebrated and extended to punish those who profited from what he calls the mutilation of children, and to push for the broader goal of eradicating transgender ideology from public life. However, the piece argues this is only a crack in, not a reversal of, The Times\u2019s overall pro-trans coverage, citing other articles that continue to defend or promote transgender policies. It criticizes Democrats and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-comms-team-gets-a-pass-where-trump-administration-would-have-had-a-scandal\/\" title=\"Biden Comms Team Gets A Pass Where Trump Administration Would Have Had A Scandal\">left-wing media<\/a> for pretending to temper their stance on transgender issues and calls for a strategic shift by the MAGA movement toward preemptive action to halt future leftist policies before they cause further damage. The essay is written by Joshua Monnington, an assistant editor at The Federalist.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The New York Times published an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/24\/opinion\/medical-associations-youth-gender-care.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">op-ed<\/a> Tuesday detailing how two major medical organizations are retreating from their positions that &ldquo;the science&rdquo; was unquestionably in favor of surgically removing the healthy breasts of girls and injecting boys with estrogen, among other interventions. The decisions to retreat came on the heels of a jury&rsquo;s decision to award a young woman who had an elective double mastectomy at 16 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/03\/health\/gender-surgery-malpractice-varian.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$2 million<\/a> after she sued the psychologist and plastic surgeon who participated in disfiguring her body. <\/p>\n<p>Without overstating its significance, the victory should be celebrated and pursued to its logical conclusion: the just punishment of everyone who pushed and profited from the emotional and physical mutilation of children and, as Michael Knowles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/knowles-at-cpac-there-is-no-meeting-halfway-between-truth-and-falsehood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">put it<\/a>, transgenderism&rsquo;s complete eradication from public life, along with the redemption of those whose lives the ideology shattered. <\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s important to note, however, that the Times&rsquo; op-ed on the American Medical Association&rsquo;s and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons&rsquo; backtracking is a crack in, not a reversal of, its relentlessly pro-trans coverage. That coverage, for example, includes an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/27\/us\/riley-gaines-trans-athletes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attack<\/a> on Riley Gaines and a recent piece implicitly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/19\/nyregion\/transgender-adolescents-nyu-langone-program-eliminated.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">arguing<\/a> that halting the transing of children goes too far because, well, what would one do in a world where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/espn-throws-a-tantrum-over-trump-protecting-womens-sports\/\" title=\"ESPN Throws A Tantrum Over Trump Protecting Women&#039;s Sports\">doctors don&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t try to chemically alter the bodies of young children? A true reversal, plain and simple, would mean the Times deciding not to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/11\/world\/americas\/canada-tumbler-ridge-shooting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">call<\/a> trans-identifying male mass murderers women.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to the Times, Democrats make occasional <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/01\/19\/only-government-force-can-stop-democrats-from-plunging-america-into-darkness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">feints<\/a> at dog-paddling back toward sanity on the issue of transgenderism, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuberville.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/senate-democrats-block-tuberville-bill-to-protect-female-athletes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">positive movement on policy<\/a> is nowhere to be seen, nor is it likely to be. As Alicia Nieves <a href=\"https:\/\/www.compactmag.com\/article\/why-the-democratic-party-cant-moderate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">argued<\/a> in Compact Magazine, radical activist groups have so much influence over the Democrat politicians that moderation is unlikely without structural changes, even on 80\/20 issues like transgender ideology. Democrats&rsquo; inability to set a trajectory that coheres with reality and the positions of the American people makes their displays of faux moderation all the more necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Which explains why leftist politicians, journalists, influencers, and institutions will keep pretending they&rsquo;ve &ldquo;learned&rdquo;: like the American Medical Association on transing kids, Hillary Clinton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/hillary-clinton-says-migration-went-too-far-needs-fixed-humane-way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on immigration<\/a>, The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/02\/18\/nyt-finally-admits-what-we-therapists-have-known-for-years-weed-makes-people-insane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on marijuana<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/08\/31\/the-new-york-times-assumes-a-scientific-consensus-on-school-mask-mandates-that-its-own-reporting-shows-does-not-exist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mask<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/31\/briefing\/masks-mandates-us-covid.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mandates<\/a>, and Tim Walz on fraud (see, he &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/kstp-news\/top-news\/gov-walz-said-hes-fired-people-over-the-fraud-crisis-but-who\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fired people<\/a>&ldquo;).<\/p>\n<p>Even if these leftists really had learned, the question remains: How much more &ldquo;learning&rdquo; can America afford? Recently Zohran Mamdani proudly rolled back the policy of sweeping homeless encampments &mdash; and then <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/17\/us-news\/mamdani-brings-back-homeless-encampment-sweeps-turning-on-campaign-promise-after-backlash-over-cold-weather-deaths\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">put it back<\/a> in place after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/mamdani-homeless-encampment-sweeps-new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nearly 20 people died<\/a> in the cold &mdash; and then seemingly <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/23\/us-news\/nyc-wont-tear-down-homeless-encampments-during-historic-blizzard-mamdani-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reversed course <\/a>again. It would be more practical than performative to ask him whether or not his policy mistakes will always involve this kind of body count. Yet even this deadly policy failure is a fairly insignificant example of the destruction leftism has wrought in the U.S. within the previous decade.<\/p>\n<p>In all honesty, it&rsquo;s shocking that Americans still have a country after the threefold assault of Covid lockdowns, Biden&rsquo;s open border crisis, and the war on the reality of male and female and the immutability of sex. To the extent that the United States&rsquo; culture, economy, and people press forward as vibrantly as they do, it&rsquo;s a testimony to God&rsquo;s grace, the resilience of the American people, and, yes, the incorrigible persistence of Donald Trump. But it would be a mistake to expect this resilience to last indefinitely. <\/p>\n<p>The damage caused by Democrat &ldquo;mistakes&rdquo; demands that the right shift from a policy of reacting to leftist assaults after many lives have been ruined to halting them in their infancy, or even launching preemptive campaigns on fronts the left seems likely to threaten. The success or failure of the MAGA movement will in large part be determined by whether it can catalyze this shift and prove it is capable of stopping the next left-wing manmade disaster before Democrats can &ldquo;learn&rdquo; from it. America can only survive so much more of this kind of education.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Joshua Monnington is an assistant editor at The Federalist. He was previously an editor at Regnery Publishing and is a graduate of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT: med groups retreat from &#8216;science&#8217; on gender care<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3134,"featured_media":2573956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Copy-of-Untitled-2.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[5374,4539,71196,5965,5894],"class_list":["post-2573955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-america","tag-conservatives","tag-culture-war-2","tag-leftists","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Copy-of-Untitled-2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2573955"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2573959,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573955\/revisions\/2573959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2573956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2573955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2573955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2573955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}